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25 tips from top executives

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Since many of them will already be employed by 2025 and 2026, your company’s best chance to find new employees or poach from a competitor will be in 2024. Alan Beaulieu, president, ITR Economics B uild your product knowledge There are so many products and specifications today. Promote a brand, not just a product.

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Exclusive: Boen and Somerset—A dynamic duo

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A few months ago Bauwerk Group, a Switzerland-based manufacturer of hardwood flooring that also owns the Boen brand, purchased the prefinished side of Somerset Hardwood Flooring , the company founded by Steve Merrick in 1990 as a supplier of unfinished goods. I’m looking on the floor. We don’t have any more production capacity.

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Economics: Headwinds will moderate growth in 2024 

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That was the main thrust of a pair of informative economic keynote presentations delivered by ITR Economics last fall during the North American Association of Floor Covering Distributors+ North American Building Materials Distribution Association (NAFCD+NBMDA) conference. Outlook on U.S. Lowering interest rates will help.

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Economics: ITR forecast signals return to ‘normalized’ growth

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While ITR Economics attests to the fact that first quarter gross domestic production (GDP) was down 0.36% from the fourth quarter of ’21, the firm believes there were mitigating circumstances. industrial production keeps on rising. industrial production and to thousands of other data series that span most industries and most economies.